Good evening. Rachel Reeves has defended scrapping the winter fuel payment for 10 million pensioners, saying it was the “right decision” in the circumstances she had inherited.
Elsewhere, the Labour peer at the centre of a sleaze row has told a journalist not to ask him about donations, saying “this isn’t nice”.
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Rachel Reeves stands by winter fuel cuts
The Chancellor pledged never to “duck those decisions”, whether for “political expediency” or “personal advantage”. Ms Reeves also defended the Government’s decision to give pay rises to junior doctors and train drivers to persuade their unions to end their strikes. Writing for The Telegraph, Robert Jenrick suggests even Ms Reeves knows that Labour have hurt Britain.
